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From: Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:24:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzx35zkc.fsf@sycorax.lbl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070301184531.b3aeafe3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (message from Andrew Morton on Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:45:31 -0800)

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:32:43 -0800
> Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov> wrote:
>
>> the backlight on my thinkpad still (2.6.20 worked fine) doesn't come
>> on if i have the radeon backlight enabled. without it, i guess it's
>> the ibm acpi modules that controls the backlight and it seems to work
>> fine.
>> 
>
> Unclear. Are you saying that the backlight comes on OK if you use
> the IBM acpi module?

yes, if i disable the radeon backlight and use the ibm acpi module,
than the backlight works. if i enable the radeon backlight, the screen
stays dark and i can't turn it on (i tried using radeontool to control
it but nothing happened).

--alex--

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-02 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87ps7uutsk.fsf@sycorax.lbl.gov>
2007-03-02  2:45 ` 2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 17:24   ` Alex Romosan [this message]
2007-03-02 20:29     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 20:35       ` David Miller
2007-03-02 21:01         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-03-02 21:22           ` Alex Romosan
2007-03-02 21:40             ` David Miller
2007-03-02 21:41         ` James Simmons
2007-03-02 21:58           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 23:40             ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Richard Purdie
2007-03-03 16:23               ` James Simmons
2007-03-02 23:32       ` Richard Purdie
2007-03-03  5:34         ` Alex Romosan
2007-03-03 16:06         ` James Simmons
2007-03-03 16:35           ` Richard Purdie

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